Councillor Celia Martinez Parks and Gardens, and the technique of the council, Ana Belén Gómez today introduced the campaign "Respect our environment" aimed at pet owners with the intention to educate and inform the individual and collective responsibility to respect civic norms such as the obligation to collect the droppings of the street.
Two bylaws, the Parks and Gardens and Urban Hygiene and Waste Management, require collecting droppings in the street, under penalty of pet owners that do not.
Also Pets are prohibited in playgrounds and turf areas, where they could get to create public health problems, said Celia Martinez.
The Parks and Gardens councilman defended pet ownership and encouraged to enjoy them "but with the rules of civic education that we are all responsible."
The technique of the council, Ana Belen Gomez recalled that his department received several complaints daily of citizens, on this subject, "that can be solved with a simple gesture from their owners so that also would avoid a significant economic cost the City ".
The Department has published brochures already begun to distribute to schoolchildren in the municipality, for their awareness and to serve as transmitters of information to the rest of the family.
Addition will increase the informative posters and pipicanes to existing areas especially busy as the Paseo Colon or larger parks, to make it easier for pet owners.
The Councillor for Parks and Gardens, Celia Martinez stressed the spirit of the campaign information that follows other made before the City Council, with no decrease in the number of citizen complaints about it, and recalled that the second phase will be monitoring and sanctions for those who do not respect the rules.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier